Van Gogh's Bad Café: A Love Story - Softcover

Tuten, Frederic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580730345 ISBN 13: 9781580730341

Publisher: Black Classic Press, Inprint Editions, 2005

Synopsis

Vincent van Gogh created his life's work out of a vortex of passion and delirium so intense his paintings seem to burst off the canvas. Now Frederick Tuten, the highly acclaimed author of Tintin in the New World, has imagined the personification of van Gogh's fervor and madness: Ursula, one of the most beguiling creations in recent literature. A morphine-addicted, nineteen-year-old photographer, Ursula is van Gogh's lover and tormentor. But she is lost to him, and he to her, when she steps through a crack in the wall at the Bad Cafe and finds herself in a strange world--New York City at the end of the twentieth century.

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Review:

This tender novel is author Frederic Tuten's imagining of Vincent van Gogh's last months, encompassing in its beautiful passages a possible motive for the artist's legendary suicide. A true ode to van Gogh, to love, and to art, this book is essential reading for anyone who has ever been fascinated by the life and work of van Gogh. Relying as much upon historical and biographical information about the artist as it does upon the author's own imagination, this is an exploration of the mysterious territory where art and life intersect, impact, and collide with one another. As vibrant and passionate as the art of its subject, reading this book is an experience akin to viewing one of van Gogh's paintings.

From the Publisher:

As incandescent and intense as the art of its subject, Van Gogh's Bad Cafe is a fantastical romance set in two different eras. It is a meditation on love and longing; on van Gogh's psyche and his work; on addiction (to passion, drugs, art); on the spirit of the nineteenth versus the twentieth century.

Reading this book is, indeed, like viewing a van Gogh: You savor each brush stroke, linger over its mesmerizing imagery, and revel in its sensual beauty. As soon as you finish, you want to start again.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Classic Press, Inprint Editions
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1580730345
• ISBN 13: 9781580730341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 163